It gives you an idea of how sophisticated your reading audience has to be to understand you, based on things like complexity of sentence structure, number of words per sentence, number of syllables per word, things like that. The higher the number, the more sophisticated/educated the audience member has to be. The high numbers can be good (and usually produce more ego strokes with geeks), but can also be a bad thing, as the lower your number is, the more easily you will be understood by a wider audience.
From what I understand this has nothing to do with structural complexity or any other "things like that", just a simple words per sentence/syllables per word ratio, as described below. You could enter nonsense entries made up of nothing but long "sentences" of strung-together thesuarus fodder and get a high grade.
Agreed; but I was referring to the actual test, not to the lj quiz related to it. =) Sorry about that, chief.
I crave your pardon for the use of "things like that", but I have massively injured my knee this evening and am less than lucid. Where is my codeine...
Right. I think you misjudged my intent. "Things like that" wasn't in quotes to attempt to needle at it/you, I just figured if I'm going to use the same words as you I may as well quote it. (Honestly, I'd have to delete half my entries if I was going to get snarky about .. erm.. things like that.)
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Date: 2003-10-29 12:11 am (UTC)(Not to dispute what the purpose is, just how it arrives at the result.)
Date: 2003-10-29 09:55 am (UTC)Re: (Not to dispute what the purpose is, just how it arrives at the result.)
Date: 2003-10-29 10:49 am (UTC)I crave your pardon for the use of "things like that", but I have massively injured my knee this evening and am less than lucid. Where is my codeine...
Re: (Not to dispute what the purpose is, just how it arrives at the result.)
Date: 2003-10-29 02:36 pm (UTC)"I crave your pardon"
Right. I think you misjudged my intent. "Things like that" wasn't in quotes to attempt to needle at it/you, I just figured if I'm going to use the same words as you I may as well quote it. (Honestly, I'd have to delete half my entries if I was going to get snarky about .. erm.. things like that.)